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Definition: Moliere |
MoliereNoun1. French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Moliere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | MOLIERE, Jean B. P., a French author who wrote a few plays we do not have to see alone. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: MoliereSynonym: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Moliere |
| English words defined with "Moliere": Tartufe, Tartuffe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Moliere": MOLIERE. (references) |
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Clever | We have changed all that. (references; author: Moliere) A woman always has her revenge ready. (references; author: Moliere) You are a fool in four letters, my son. (references; author: Moliere) I will maintain it before the whole world. (references; author: Moliere) You see him laboring to produce bons mots. (references; author: Moliere) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jean Baptiste Moliere | Things are only worth what one makes them worth. |
Moliere | We have changed all that. |
| A woman always has her revenge ready. | |
| You are a fool in four letters, my son. | |
| You see him laboring to produce bons mots. | |
| I will maintain it before the whole world. | |
| I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes. | |
| Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. | |
| Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Measure this sweep of wing which reaches from Moliere to Barra. |
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| "Moliere" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Moliere" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: elmier, moiler. | |
-2 letters: elemi, merle, miler, moire, morel, oiler, oriel, reoil. | |
-3 letters: emir, leer, lier, lime, limo, lire, lore, mere, merl, mile, milo, mire, moil, mole, more, omer, orle, reel, riel, rile, rime, roil, role. | |
-4 letters: eel, elm, eme, ere, ire, lee, lei, lie, mel, mil, mir, mol, mor, oil, ole, ore, ree, rei. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: comelier, homelier. | |
+2 letters: embroiled, kilometer, meliorate, melodizer, recompile, sommelier, tremolite. | |
+3 letters: ameliorate, bloomeries, ceilometer, ceremonial, clinometer, demolisher, demoralize, heliometer, immortelle, kilometers, meliorated, meliorates, melodizers, mongrelize, neorealism, overmilked, oversimple, polymerise, polymerize, recompiled, recompiles, remobilize, remodeling, sommeliers, thermopile, tiresomely, tremolites, ureotelism. | |
+4 letters: aeromedical, allometries, ameliorated, ameliorates, boilermaker, calorimeter, ceilometers, ceremonials, clinometers, colorimeter, deformalize, deglamorize, demolishers, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, dilatometer, elastomeric, embroilment, endometrial, fluorimeter, geometrical, heliometers, heliometric, hormonelike, immortelles, implementor, irremovable, meliorative, memorialise, memorialize, memorizable, meteoroidal, metrologies, misenrolled, mongrelized, mongrelizes, myoelectric, neorealisms, overclaimed, overmelting, polarimeter, polymerised, polymerises, polymerized, polymerizes, reemploying, remobilized, remobilizes, remodelling, renormalize, salinometer, spermophile, temporalize, thermocline, thermophile, thermopiles, ureotelisms, velocimeter, wearisomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6C 69 65 72 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-.. .. . .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o l i e r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006C 0069 0065 0072 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47817875718471 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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